It's been quite a rush watching all the activity in Social Networking over the course of 2007.  One of areas in particular that I find interesting is what has been going on with social aggregation.

 What is social aggregation?

 In the simplest illustration it involves collecting links to all of your various profiles from other social networks and displaying them in one place.  Many of the sites providing aggregation services have taken this much further and allow you to do things such as:

• Monitor your friends activities with live updates
  
• Stream your content from other sites
• Collect e-mail and instant messenging into a unified environment
• Control what information you share and to whom you share it

Most are web based aggregators, but one in particular offers a toolbar approach that looks very promising - Minggl

We just expanded our section on social aggregation to now include 20 listings. I've broken my general rule in a few cases by adding some sites that are in private beta because their offerings look pretty compelling.

Goodbye to a couple listings

I feel bad about having to remove any of the listings that have been added, but I heard word that Bolt.com and MingleNow.com are ceasing operation.  They are no longer in the Social.com directory.

A note about what we add to the directory

The About Us link gives a description of how we go about deciding to add a site to our directory.  While we realize that there are probably thousands of Social Networking related sites, we are trying to cut through the noise by being a little selective.   We've got over 400 entries now with more coming.  We aren't trying to hurry the process though, as we've got other interesting things that we are working on as well!

Hoping for a great 2008 for everyone

We anticipate that next year will continue to be a wild ride and we wish everyone health, happiness and prosperity in  2008. 

Happy New Year to all from Social.com!

- BlueSkies